I recently had the chance to chat with Chris and Stuart, two enterprising twenty-somethings who founded Gradspot, which they hope will become the premiere online destination for life after college.  They are super-impressive young professionals, having graduated from Harvard and Emory respectively and boasting work experience in the ...

My friend and 30/20 Vision radio show co-host Lindsey Pollak and I had the opportunity to contribute to Marci Alboher’s New York Times career coach roundtable on management consulting and investment banking as careers for soon-to-be college grads.  Here was the question, as well as highlights from our responses: “I will be graduating ...

Two new career-expert friends have terrific books out that are great companions to my latest effort, How’d You Score That Gig?  Starting out, my fellow Ballantine author Pamela Skillings has written Escape from Corporate America, an extremely detailed and thorough roadmap to assessing if leaving traditional business is the right move for you, ...

As a college student in the late 90s, I used to curse my lack of proficiency at math.  Back then, the perception was that if you could master integral calculus or organic chemistry, you could be the one landing the big paycheck right out of college.   Over at Career Builder, Kate Lorenz shares that when it comes to math, perception ...

Do you want to learn how a nonfiction business/career book is researched and written?  As my summer intern, you will be responsible for screening interview candidates, soliciting questionnaires, and setting up phone discussions with the people who will be profiled in my new book on career changers to be published by Random House in ...

Last night, my husband and I were watching Northwestern campus programming on the Big Ten Network.  We both graduated from NU in the late 90s, which, after seeing the profiles of a few students in the class of 2011, seems like an eternity ago.  We remembered with nostalgia moving into our first dorms, meeting our roommates for the first ...

Just wanted to let everyone know that a new episode of the 30/20 Vision podcast is archived at Blog Talk Radio.  This month, my partners in crime Christine Hassler (author of 20-Something, 20-Everything) and Lindsey Pollak (author of Getting from College to Career) and I discuss the top ten things we wish we'd known when we were in our ...

I am really excited to share the debut of the new 30/20 Podcast series - especially for the 20-something woman who wishes she had a couple of big sisters to clue her in on the ins and outs of life after college. The series will feature me and my fellow authors and pals Christine Hassler (20-Something, 20-Everything), and Lindsey Pollak (From ...

I love this post from Andrew over at Jobacle on how the first day of school is like the first day of work.  Andrew has some tips for how you can use your latent school memories to get back into the workplace grind after those lazy days of summer:    Get enough sleep.  Not only are zzs important for physical and mental ...

One of my favorite career writers, Annie Fisher at Fortune, received the following e-mail from a reader:   Dear Annie: I never expected to find myself asking you for advice, but I'm really stuck. I was an 'A' student in college and always found ways to stand out from the crowd (captain of the lacrosse team, etc.) at the Ivy League school I ...